Ultimate Bread

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Summary: turn on the oven, is baking time!
Review: This is an amazing book. It is so complete and detailed.
My previous experiences in bread baking were with betty crocker. I liked the recipes but I wanted to go a step further. With so many books about baking bread, it was a hard choice but I decided on this one because I saw that it was filled with pictures. I'm so glad that I chose this 'cause it is indeed a great book. The recipes are incredible and the techniques also.
The book starts with a "gallery of breads", beautiful pictures of french, english, italian, european and middle eastern breads.
Then it shows different types of flours (with more pictures), then the techniques step by step on how to prepare the yeast, how to make a starter, mixing, kneading, shaping and baking. Photos of different kinds of glazing and toppings follow this chapter. Then the recipes. I think I've tried every recipe that is in this book. Not one of them turned out bad. They were espectacular. Outside and inside.
I cannot recommend this book enough.

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Summary: Short, Sweet and Good!
Review: Ultimate Bread is one of the better yet easy to use bread baking books on the market. For the first time bread baker it is user friendly and offers numerous recipes which are fun as well as delicious. For the experienced baker it is a welcome relief from the over written 500 page monster found on the shelves of todays book stores. It also has beautiful photographs which alone are worth the purchase.

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Summary: A Quality Bread Book
Review: Very rustic authentic breads, breads of all over the world... sweet, herbed, crusty, and yeasty. Love all of the pictures and instructions on how to create different shapes and toppings for the breads. Excellent!

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Summary: Here are the secrets of the best bread!
Review: Want the best tasting bread? Get this book and make your own - satisfaction guaranteed!